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Boston
The Boston Almanac and Directory 1883 $50.00
Boston: Sampson, Davenport & Co, 1882
Listing of tradesmen by occupation. Nice ads, plus civic information.
592 pages, 3 1/2 x 5/2 hardbound, back cover hinge loose but attached, covers worn
Boston: A Topographical History $19.95
Walter Muir Whitehill
Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press, 1959. 1st edition.
A very comprehensive guide to the building of the City of Boston. This is my favorite book on Boston. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps.
Table of Contents:
“Fittest for such as can trade into England”, The Eighteenth century, The Boston of Bullfinch, Cutting down the hills to fill the coves, Railroads and immigrants, The Flight from the South End, The filling of the Back Bay, The westward Movement, Appendix, Notes, Index.
244 pages, hardbound, good condition, dust jacket, top and bottom edges show wear, chips and a few tears.
Boston Births 1700-1800 $50.00
Boston: 24th Report of the Record Commissioners, 1894
“This volume , the 24th Report the Record Commission, takes up the births in the town of Boston at the date reached in the 9th Report, and contains all the births after 1699 recorded in two volumes of manuscript. It is needless to say the record is approximately perfect only to 1745; after that date the number gradually diminishes till it becomes a small fraction of the births, which of course took place.” Index.
379 pages, 6×9 hardbound, bottom corners of cover have damp staining, inside not affected, good condition. SUF/VR
The Railroad that Came Out at Night – A book of Railroading in and around Boston $45.00
By Frank Kyper
(autographed)
(From the book) “A surprise package, a veritable grab bag of railroading and action in an area where much of American railroading began is here for the reading. Two complete short line railroad historical profiles, with equipment rosters. An eyewitness account of the fire that burned up Chelsea and badly singed the Boston and Maine one night 1973. The story of a by gone landmark terminal which, in spite of appearances, is not yet a terminal case. The only account ever written of the railroad occupation unchanged and unsung for decades, the job of gate-crossings tender, by one who has worked at. South Boston’s long buried railroad yard, and the archeology that unearthed it. These and other narrative of “Hub” railroading take you to scenes, and behind the scenes of two decades of rail change, from classic old style operation to new patterns under the Amtrak, Conrail and MBTA heralds – all the more vivid because the author was on the spot when many of the highlights happened.”
Some nice pictures. I enjoyed this book. It brought back memories of visiting with the gate-crossing tenders in West Concord when I was a boy
160 pages, 6×9 hardbound, good condition, dust jacket has some rubbing
Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield $12.00 (in print $24.95)
Thomas H. O’Connor
Boston: Northeaster University Press, 1997
The interesting story of Boston’s involvement with the Civil War.
336 pages, 6×9 softbound, good condition, minor edge wear. CW, S
Directory of Social Agencies of Boston $10.00
Compiled and Published by the Boston Council of Social Agencies, 1924
Seventh Edition
A Reference Book of Social Service in the City of Boston.
For most of the entries there is a short paragraph detailing services offered. There are advertisements in the back of the book.
7×4½, hardbound, good condition.
| Proceedings of the Bostonian Society. Annual Meeting, 1974. $5.25. The first half contains the proceedings of the society. The second half contains a supplement by Bettina A. Norton: “The Boston Naval Shipyard, 1800-1974.” Portland, Maine; The Anthoensen Press; 1975. Paperbound. No DJ. 80 pages. Good ConditionOld Boston in Colonial Days or St. Botolph’s Town $30.00 Mary Caroline Crawford Boston: The Page Company, 1922 The history of Boston from it’s beginnings to the American Revolution. Table of Contents: As It Was In The Beginning John Winthrop And Margaret, His Wife St. Botolph’s Town In Old England And New The Coming Of A Shining Light Sir Harry Vane-Prophet And Martyr How Winthrop Treated With The La Tours Freedom To Worship God Boston As John Dunton Saw It The Dynasty Of The Mathers The College At Cambridge The Boston Of Franklin’s Boyhood A Puritan Pepys In The Reign Of The Royal Governors A Genuine Colonial Romance The Dawn Of Active Resistance Index 365 pages, 6×9 hardbound, some light stains on front cover, light wear on hinge and shelf wear, good condition. Always Something Doing: A History of Boston’s Infamous Scollay Square $9.00 David Kruh 1990. Faber and Faber, Boston (From the back cover) “Scollay Square once THE VERY HEART OF BOSTON, Scollay Square is still fondly remembered as the site of the Old Howard Theater and other burlesque shows, Joe & Nemo’s hot dog stand, the Crawford House, and an array of tattoo parlors and bars. From the late 1800s to the late 1950s, Scollay Square was an infamous attraction for sailors on leave, students skipping school, anyone just looking for a good time in Boston. The Square had been a Boston landmark since the days of the Puritans. The Sons of Liberty met there during the Revolution. Abolitionists published newspapers from there during the Civil War. Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell set up shop there for a while. In 1961, Scollay Square was demolished to make way for progress in the form of Government Center, but in 1987 the name of the Government Center subway stop was officially changed back to Scollay Square due to popular demand. In Always Something Doing, David Kruh tells the story of Scollay Square from Boston’s founding to the present, concentrating on the Square’s heyday as an entertainment district. It is part history, part reminiscence, and part cautionary tale about the process of urban renewal. Illustrated with dozens of then-and-now photographs of the area, Always Something Doing will bring back a part of Boston now buried under the bricks of Government Center, but very much alive in the memories of those who played hooky, got tattooed, or saw Sally Keith twirl her tassels there.” 157 pages, 6×9 softbound, good condition. The Church of the Advent First Years (Boston, Mass.) $5.00 John T. Maltsberger Boston 1986 Table of contents: High Church Stirrings in the Eastern Diocese, William Croswell, First Rector, The Beginning of the Church of the Advent, Forward Through Adversity, A Note Respecting Sources, Chapter Notes, Bibliography. 102 pages, 6×9 softbound, very fine condition.Hollis Street Church, Boston 1732-1861 $12.00 From Mather Byles to Thomas Starr King George Leonard Chaney Boston: Press of George H. Ellis, 1877 70 page pamphlet, softbound, wear around some of the edges and spine. Trinity Church in the City of Boston 1733-1933 $19.95 Boston: Printed for the Wardens & Vestry of Trinity Church, 1933 Table of contents: The Beginnings by Jeffrey Richardson Brackett, PH.D., Historical Sermon by Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D., RT. Rev Manton Eastburn, D.D. by RT. Rev William Lawrence D.D., Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D. by RT. Rev William Lawrence D.D., Rev. E. Winchester Donald, D.D. by RT. Rev William Lawrence D.D., Rev. Alexander Mann D.D., By RT. Rev Henry Knox Sherrill, D.D., Rev Henry Knox Sherrill, D.D. by Rev. Arthur O. Phinney, Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, D.D. by Jeffrey Richardson Brackett, PH.D., The Future of Trinity Church by Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, D.D., Memorial of Phillips Brooks, The Church Plate, Description of the Church by Henry H. Richardson, A list of Ministers and Officers, index. 120 pages, 6×9 hardbound, good condition, covers are rubbed., light scratchingSome Statues of Boston $12.00 Alan Forbes & Ralph E. Eastman Boston: Sate Street Trust Company, 1946 This is the first of two works on the statues of Boston issued by the bank. Reproductions of some of the statues for which Boston is famous, with information concerning the personalities and events so memorialized. Each statue has a description and a photo. Table of contents: Aristides – Columbus, Boston Massacre Monument, Thomas Cass, Charles Devens, Leif Ericksson, David Glasgow Farragut, Football Tablet, Benjamin Franklin, William Lloyd Garrison, John Harvard, Edward Everett Hale, Anne (Madbury) Hutchinson, Kosciuzko, Horace Mann, Donald McKay, John Boyle O’Reilly, Josiah Quincy, Paul revere, Robert Gould Shaw, Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Joseph Warren, John Winthrop, Roger Wolcott. 75 pages, 6×9 softbound, good condition, wear on spine, chipped top and bottom. The Log of the State Street Bank $12.00 Boston, Mass.: State Street Trust Company, 1926 Containing a description of its colonial banking rooms, its ships models, cranked furnishings, rare prints of ships, and views of Boston and other New England towns. Including a story of a “lampshade fleet” and sketches of the Company’s staff, with a story of the national Union Bank and a chapter on the significance of state Street as a business center. 87 pp. softbound, burlap covers, some traces on back cover. And This Is Boston! (and Seashore and Country Too) 2d Edition $7.50 Eleanor Early Boston, Mass. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1938. OLD BOSTON. OLD BOSTON (continued). BEACON HILL. MARBLEHEAD AND SALEM. GLOUCESTER AND CAPE ANN. CAMBRIDGE. LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. HARVARD AND SUDBURY. PLYMOUTH AND THE SOUTH SHORE. NANTUCKET AND THE CAPE. ODDS AND ENDS. Whimsical guide to the Boston area’s landmarks and history. Hardbound. Original DJ with wear. 256 pages. fair Condition. Freedom by the Bay – The Boston Freedom Trail $9.00 (Out of Print) William G. Schofield NY: Rand McNally 1974 (from the end flaps) “Freedom by the Bay is the story of the Boston Freedom Trail. Boston has long been a tourist attraction for Americans from all over the country who are interested in tracing the heritage of our nation’s freedom. Until 1951, however, there had been certain problems confronting the unwary tourist in downtown Boston. The churches, monuments, and other famous places were sometimes hard to find, and out-of-towners would wander the historic but winding streets, often running afoul of the stews of old Scollay Square and even occasionally blundering headlong into Boston Harbor. In that year, author William Schofield, then with the Boston Herald Traveler, proposed in his column that the city of Boston tie its historic sites together in one sight-seeing package. The mayor and Chamber of Commerce were enthusiastic, and thus the Boston Freedom Trail was born. The author takes the reader on a walking tour of the Trail, stopping at each of the 16 officially designated sites where events took place that established America’s freedom-Faneuil Hall, the Old North Church, Paul Revere’s House, Boston Common, among them-as well as the landmarks just off the Trail. He comments that lie wanted to make Freedom by the Bay “an entertaining-but factual-version of history and of the lives of the early patriots. I want it to be a book that people will read for fun as well as for information.” And he has succeeded. Freedom by the Bay is a light-hearted, informal history of colonial Boston and the Massachusetts Bay area. While it brings to life such famous personages and events as James Otis and Sam Adams, the Boston Massacre, Bunker Hill, and the Salem witch trials, it also recounts little-known but revealing sidelights of history: duels on Boston Common, the curious story of a man named James Childs who flew from the steeple of Old North on homemade wings back in the 18th century, ghosts in the Athenaeum library, misplaced bodies in Old North, and America’s first “hippie commune” at Merrymount.” 160 pages, hardbound G, dust jacket is shows wear along edges Historic Walks in Old Boston $7.95 By John Harris Globe Pequot Press 1982 Stroll through three and a half centuries of Boston history. Choose among forty short walks that meander through the best of old Boston – the Common, Beacon Hill, downtown, the waterfront, the North and West Ends, and Back Bay. History will spring to life as you pass through neighborhoods where great figures of the past – from Paul Revere to John Kennedy – once lived and worked. You will stop at dozens of little-known spots as well as famous sites like Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market, the Old State House, Scollay Square, and more. Did you know …Maine native Eben Jordan opened his first dry-goods store on Hanover Street in the 1840’s?a sea Captain was put in the stocks in 1673 for “lewd and unseeingly conduct,” i.e., kissing his wife on their doorstep as he returned from a three-year voyage?Mark Twain once committed a “hideous” blunder in front of Emerson, Longfellow, and Holmes at a dinner in the Old Brunswick Hotel?a Boston merchant sold local pond ice as far away as Calcutta in the early 1800’s?This is just a sampling of the intriguing facts and fresh anecdotes you will find inside along with point-by-point directions, nine original maps, and a comprehensive index. “If Boston is your destination, bring along a copy and a pair of comfortable walking shoes. “ -The Christian Science Monitor easily the best Boston book of the year … grand, delightful, and very informative.” -The Pilot, Boston 331 pages, 6×9 softbound Days and ways in Old Boston $12.00 (Out of Print) William S. Rossiter Boston: R. H. Stearns & Company 1972 (reprint of 1915 edition) Table of contents: I. The Year 1847 by William S. Rossiter, II Other Days and Ways in Boston & Cambridge, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, III Recollections of Old Boston, From a conversation with a Boston Lady of the period, IV The Old Boston Waterfront, by Frank H. Forbes, V. The Old Rosewood Desk, by Maude Howe Elliot, VI Advertising in Boston 1847-1914, by Robert Lincoln O’Brien, VII Boston as a Shopping City, by Heloise E. Hersey, VIII An Historic Corner, by Walter K. Watkins, IX Old Boston Banks, From information furnished by Francis R. Hart. 144 pages, softboundBoston $9.95 Smithmark Publishers 1992 Coffee table book, nice pictures 128 pages, 9×12 hardbound, dust jacket Men & Times of Pepperell $9.95 David Yorke Boston, Mass: Pepperell Manufacturing Company 1945 An account of the first one hundred years of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, incorporated February 16, 1844. 107 pages, hardbound, dye from the cloth has run onto the bottom edges of the pages, back cover has stains on it Shawmut 150 Years of Banking 1836-1986 (Boston, Mass.) $12.50 Asa S. Knowles Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986 (from the end flap) Shawmut presents an informed and lively account of how one small bank grew from a tiny, second-floor operation into a major New England banking institution. Written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Shawmut Bank of Boston, the book is more than an institutional publication, ft is a history of a constantly changing financial organization. From the days when Boston’s water front was lined with sailing ships from all over the world and Boston money was financing westward expansion, the Shawmut Bank has been a leading force for growth. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Bank contributed to New England’s trade and textile industries and to the expansion of the nation’s railroads. By the early twentieth century, it was helping find automobile manufacturers, electric utilities, and the new American Telephone and Tele graph Corporation. Today it provides similar support to New England’s high-tech industries. The story of Shawmut, then, is the story of a constantly changing financial organization. Many of its traditions—its basically conservative policies, its dedication to the welfare of the city, state, and region, and even some of its dominant financial interests—can be traced to the bank’s origin in Boston in the early nineteenth century. Yet no one person dictated its shape; no one decade determined its course. Over the years, as the nation’s banking system has changed and as the concept of community has broadened to include not only the immediate environs but the nation and finally the globe, these traditions and interests have been modified, expanded and augmented. Shawmut’s story is that of many dedicated people working over several generations to assume the continued growth and development of a strong and responsive financial institution. 517 pages, hardbound, dust jacket, good condition. The Early Records of Boston Massachusetts: (A few of these are listed under Boston) Report of the Record Commissioners, Boston Records, 1634-1660 & Book of Possessions Vol 2 $50.00 Boston: 1881Boston Town records 1634-1660 and the Book of Possessions which is a list of property owners with a description of their land, buildings.List of owners:Anderson, John, . Arnold, John, . Aspinwall, William Baker, John, . Barrell, George, . Bates, George, . Baxter, Nicholas, . Beamont, Thomas, . Beamsley, William, . Beck, Alexander, . Belchar, Edward, . Bell, Thomas, . Bellingham, Richard, . Bendall, Edward, . Bennett, Richard, . Biggs, John, .Bishop, Nathaniel, . Blantaine, William, . Blott, Robert, . Bosworth, Zaccheus, . Bourne, Nehemiah, . Bourne, Garret, . Bowen, Griffith, . Brisco, William, . Browne, Edward, . Browne, Henry, . Browne, William, . Browne, James, . Burden, George, . Busbie, Nicholas, . Buttolph, Thomas, . Button, John Carter, Richard, . Chaffie, Matthew, .Chamberlaine, William, . Chappell, Nathaniell, . Cheevers, Bartholomew, . Clarke, Arthur, . Clarke, Christopher, . Clarke, Thomas, . Clarke, Thomas, . Coggan, John, . Cole, John, .Cole, Samuel, . Cole, , . Coleborn, William, . Compton, John, . Cooke, Richard, . Copp, William, . Corser, William, . Cotton, John, . Cranwell, John, . Croychley, Richard, . Cullimer, Isaac Davies, James, . Davies, John, . Davies, William, apothecary,. Davies, William, Sr., . Davies, William, Jr., . Deming, William, . Dennis, Edmund, . Dinsdale, William, . Douglas, William, . Dowse, Francis, .Dunster East, Francis, . Eaton, Nathaniel, . Eliot, Jacob Fish, Gabriel, Fletcher, Edward, . Fletcher, Roger, . Flint, Mr., .Foster, Thomas, . Fowle, Thomas, . Folcroft, George, . Franklin, William Gallop, John, . Gibones, Edward, . Gillom, Benjamin, . Glover, John, . Goodwin, Edward, . Greames, Samuel, . Gridley, Richard, . Griggs, George, . Grosse, Edmund, . Grosse, Isaac, . Grubb, Thomas, . Gunnison, Hugh, . Hailestone, William, . Hansett, John, . Harker, Anthony, . Harrison, John, . Haugh, Atherton, . Hawkins, James, . Hawkins, Capt. Thomas, . Hawkins, Thomas, . Hibbins, William, . Hill, John, .Hill, Valentine, . , Hogg, Richard, . Hollich, Richard, . Houtchin, Jeremy, . Howen, Robert, . Hudson, Francis, . Hudson, William, Sr., . Hudson, William, Jr., . Hull, Robert, . Hunne, Anne, wid. of George,. Hurd, John, .Hutchinson, Edward, . Hutchinson, Richard Iyons (otherwise Irons), Mathew Jacklin, Edward, . Jackson, Edmund Keayne, Robert, Kenrick, John, . Kirkby, William, . Knight,. Sarah Lake, John, . Langdon, John, . Lawson, Christopher, . Leger, Jacob, . Letherland, William, . Leverit, John, . Leverit, John, . Leverit, Thomas, . Lippincott, Richard, . Low, John, . Lugg, John, . Lyle, Francis Makepeace, Thomas, . Marshall, John, . Marshall’, Thomas, . Mason, Raph, . Mattox, James, . Maud, Daniel, . Meeres, Robert, . Mellows, John, . Merry,. Walter, . Messinger, Henry, . Michell,. George, . Millard, Thomas, . Milom, John, . Munt, Thomas Nanney, Robert, . Nash, James, . Nash, Robert, . Negoos, Benjamin, . Negoos, Jonathan, . Newgate, John Odlin, John, . Offley, David, . Oliver, James, . Oliver, John, . Oliver, Thomas Page, Abraham, . Painter, Thomas, . Palmer, John, Sr., . Palmer, John, Jr., . Parker, Jane, . Parker, Nicholas, . Parker, Richard, . Parsons, William, . Pasmor, Bartholomew, . Pease, Henry, .Pell, William, .Felton, John, .Pen, James, .Perry, Arthur, . Phillips, John, . Phillips, William, . Phippeni, David, . Phippeni, Joseph, . Pierce, William, . Pope, Ephraim Rainsford, Edward, . Rawlins, Richard, . Reinolds, Robert, . Rice, Robert, . Richardson, Amos, . Rowe, Owen, .Roote, Raph Salter William, . Sanford, Richard, . Savage, Thomas, . Scott, Robert, .Scotto, Joshua, . Scotto, Thomas, . Seaberry, John, . Sedgwick, Robert, . Sellick, David, . Sherman, Richard, . Shoare, Sampson, . Shrimpton, Henry, . Sinet, Walter, . Smith, Francis, . Smith, John, .Spoore, John, .Stanley, Christopher, . Stevenson, John, . Straine, Richard, . Sweete, John, .Symons, Henry, . Synderland, John Talmage, William, . Tapping, Richard, . Teft, William, . Thwing, Benjamin, . Townsend, William, . Truesdale, Richard, . Turner, Robert, . Tuttle, Anne, .Tyng, Edward, . Tyng, William Usher, Hezekiah Vyall, John Waite, Gamaliel, . Waite, Richard, . Walker, Robert, . Ward, Benjamin, . Webb, Henry, .Werdall, William, . Wheeler, Thomas, . White, Charity, . Wiborne, Thomas, . Willis, Nicholas, . Wicks, William, . Wilson, John, . Wilson, William, . Wing, Robert, . Winthrop, Deane, . Woodhouse, Richard, . Woodward, Nathaniel, . Woodward, Nathaniel (the elder), .Woodward, Robert, . 171 + 137 pages, 6×9 hardbound, good condition covers faded and some rubbing. ex-library Report of the Record Commissioners Boston, Charlestown Land Records Vol 4 $42.00 Report of the Record Commissioners Boston Records Gleaner Articles Vol 5 $35.00 Boston: 1887 Table of contents: 1. Blackstone’s House 2. Blackstone’s House 2*. Blackstone’s House 3. Boston Common . 4. King’s Chapel Burying-Ground 5. The Barricado of 1672 6. St. Paul’s Church 7. The First Church 8. Novelties in Estates 9. Names of Streets 10. Chambers’ Four-acre Pasture 11. Allen’s Twenty-acre Farm . 12. Zachariah Phillips’ Nine-acre Pasture 13. Old Grants of Neck Lands . . 14. Copp’s Hill . 15. Old Bakers . 16. Old Ropewalks 17. Old Ropewalks 18. James Allen’s Sixteen-acre Pasture 19. Jeremiah Allen’s Pasture . . 20. Buttolph’s Eight-acre Pasture 21. Middlecott’s Four-acre Pasture . 22. Joshua Scottow’s Four-acre Pasture 23. Bulfinch’s Four-acre Pasture 24. Molly Saunders’ Gingerbread 23. Southacks’ Pasture and Tanyard 26. Reminiscences of Somerset Street 27. Ancient and Modern Law 28. The Spring House . 29. “Valley Acre” 30. Cotton Hill . 31. Cotton Hill 32. Peter Faneuil’s House . 33. Houses of Oxenbridge and Penn 34. James Davis’s Pasture . 35. Madam Haley’s Daughter . 36. Robert Turner’s Great Pasture 37. Great men a century ago 38. Niceties of the Law 39. The Bowdoin Estate 40. ” Contempt of Court” 41. ” Contempt of Court” 42. Rogers’s Estate . 43. Allegorical . . 44. ” A Challenge to Z ” . . 45. Beacon and the Thurston House 46 Hanging 47 Beacon Hill . 48 Thomas Hancock 49 The Monument 50 Cook’s Pasture 51 The Commonwealth’s Rope-walk 52 The State-House Lot 53 Gov. Hancock’s House 54 Thomas Bulfinch 55 John Hancock 56 The Hancock Estate 57 Sewall’s Elm Pasture 58 Streets on Paper 59 Conditions – Eaves 60 Frederick Tudor – R. G. Shaw 61 Robert G. Shaw 62 Uriah Cotting – Samuel Appleton 63 Benjamin P. Homer 64 John Callender 65 The Copley Estate 66 East’s Pasture 67 Richard Pepys’ Estate 68 The Banister Lot 69 The Copley Estate 70 The Copley Estate 71 The Copley Estate 72 Mt. Vernon Street 73 Thomas L. Winthrop and John Phillips 74 Beacon Street . 75 The Lowell Family 76 The Swan Family 77 The Beacon-Street Fire ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS AND NOTES. 1. Alonzo Lewis’s Notes on the Blackstone Lot 2. Odlin’s Deposition 3. Anne Pollard’s Deposition 4. Title to King’s Chapel 5. Town Deed to King’s Chapel 6. Deed to Angola, a Negro, for Saving Gov. Bellingham’s Life 7. Pudding Lane 8. James Barton 9. Rope-walks on the Public Garden 10. Eliot Street Laid Out 11. Reminiscences of an Old Bostonian 12. Valley Acre 13. Madam Haley 14. Note by Lucius M. Sargent 15. Brattle Square Church Case 16. Brattle Square Church Case 17. Brattle Square Church Case 18. Note on the Turner Family, by L. M. Sargent 19. Inscriptions on the Old Beacon . 20. Sewall’s Gift to the South School 21. The Lowell Family 22. Col. Swan’s Book 232 pages 6×9 hardbound, good condition covers faded and some rubbing. ex-library Report of the Record Commissioners Roxbury Records Vol 6 $50.00 Boston: Second edition, 1884 Roxbury land records 1639-1717 and Roxbury church records 1630 to about 1775. 225 pages, 6×9 hardbound, good condition covers faded and some rubbing. ex-library Boston Town Records 1660-1701 Vol 7 $25.00 Report of the Record Commissioners Boston Records – Miscellaneous Papers Vol 10 $45.00 Boston: 1886TABLE OF CONTENTS. [The principal papers are the following. — W. H. W.] 1, Will of Robert Keayne, 1653 . 2. Admissions to the Town of Boston, 1670-1700 3. Town Deeds and Agreements . 4. Males in Maj. Townsend’s Camp, 1698 5. Abatements of Taxes, 1700 6. Abatements of Taxes, 1702 7. Muddy River Petition, 1704 8. Poor Fund, 1704 . 9. Warnings out of Town, 1707 10. Census of 1707 11. Agreement for a Drain, 1685 12. Tax List, 1691, 1692, 1693 13. Shop under the Town House, 1696 14. Abatements, 1701-2 15. Apprentice’s Indenture, 1701 16. Out-wharves, 1708 17. Wood Lane, 1709 18. Fortifications on the Neck, 1711 19. Vessels entered in 1714 20. Index to the First Part Prefatory Note to Directory Boston Directory for 1789, with Map Boston Directory for 1796, with Map 302 pages, 6×9 hardbound, good condition covers faded and some rubbing, corners bumped, edge wear, ex library. Selectmen’s Minutes 1701-1715 Vol 11 $25.00 Boston Town Records 1729-1742 Vol 12 $25.00 Boston Town Records 1742-1757 Vol 14 $25.00 Selectmen’s Minutes 1736-1742 Vol 15 $25.00 Selectmen’s Minutes 1742-1753 Vol 17 $25.00 Boston Births, 1700 – 1800 Vol 24 $50.00 Selectmen’s Minutes 1787-1798 Vol 29 $25.00 A Volume Relating to the Early History of Boston – Aspinwall Notarial Records From 1644 to 1651 Vol 32 $45.00 Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1903This volume contains the Notarial records of William Aspinwall, Recorder of the Suffolk County Court from November 13, 1644, until October 14/23, 1651. He was the second to hold the office, the first being Stephen Winthrop, the fourth son of Gov. John Winthrop, who was Recorder from September 9, 1639 (being appointed by order of the General Court), until the choice of William Aspinwall, November 13, 1644, at a General Court of Election. It should be borne in mind that, according to the Julian calendar, which was in use at the time, the legal year began on the 25th of March, so that the date of the first entry in the records is November 20, 1644.455 pages, 6×9 hardbound, good condition covers faded and some rubbing, corners bumped, ex library. Selectmen’s Minutes 1799-1810 Vol 33 $25.00 Boston Town Records 1796-1813 Vol 35 $25.00 Boston Town Records 1814-1822 Vol 37 $25.00 Selectmen’s Minutes 1811-1818 Vol 38 $25.00 Selectmen’s Minutes 1818-1822 Vol 39 $25.00 Charlestown Third Report of the Record Commissioners containing Charlestown (Mass.) Land Records 1638-1802 $42.00 Report of the Record Commissioners Boston, Mass: City of Boston, 1883 Land records for the 1600s in Charlestown and land bounds for the 1700s. 273 pages, softbound, covers are tattered, pages are in good condition. The Genealogies & Estates of Charlestown – in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1629-1818 $125.00 (very hard to find) By Thomas Bellows Wyman New England History Press 1982 reprint of the 1879 edition (From the forward) “A little over a hundred years have passed since the first publication of Thomas Bellows Wyman’s The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown in 1879. Its broad scope, the thoroughness of its scholarship and the meticulousness of its detail have made it an indispensable tool for the student of history, and the genealogist alike. It has continuously enjoyed the reputation of being one of the best and most accurate books of its type. Long out of print, it is once again available in this new edition. Charlestown is particularly fortunate in that almost all of its early records have survived, despite the burning of the town by the British in 1775. What makes The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown superior to most other works of its kind is that the author utilized not only obvious sources of information‑town and church records‑but other types of documents as well, particularly the deeds, and probate and court files of Middlesex County. For over thirty years Wyman collected material from many sources relating to Charlestown’s inhabitants from its earliest settlement to 1818, carefully sifting them for their genealogical value. Correlating the facts from these sources and weighing the evidence in his typically impartial manner, he produced a book whose accuracy has stood up to a century of scrutiny. The result is a monumental genealogical compendium of all families and individuals for nearly the first two centuries of the town’s existence. As one of the older settlements in New England, Charlestown is genealogically one of the most significant. Many well established families trace their beginnings to Charlestown. From this base people settled all over New England and beyond, and today thousands of Americans can trace lines of ancestry back to its early families. Thus, the book’s importance reaches well beyond Charlestown’s borders. In addition to being a “parent” town, Charlestown was a major seaport, attracting a constant stream of merchants, mariners and seamen, some of whom intermarried with the local populace and added to the blend of surnames. The most remarkable feature of the book is Wyman’s complete lack of discrimination between the distinguished and less distinguished town residents. Most town histories written before or since typically devote most of their space to prominent individuals or families or those of long‑standing residence while only mentioning briefly‑or omitting entirely‑the lesser lights. Wyman’s method allowed for no such distinction. He was fond of saying that the persons and families eminent in social station or political preferment were sure of recognition in a thousand ways not open to their less fortunate neighbors, and that his aim had been to gather the scattered memorials of the many, rather than to write panegyrics on the few…. The book’s plan is straightforward, and the alphabetical arrangement of the genealogies does away with the need for a name index. For the larger families an index for the heads of each individual family group is provided at the beginning of the family sketch. Each sketch is divided into two parts: the genealogies and the estates. It is this latter section in which the author makes his most valuable contribution. By making these records readily available, the need to seek out the often inaccessible or deteriorating originals, is eliminated…. Besides the genealogies and estates, several other features contribute to the book’s usefulness. Among these arc the chronological schedule of conveyances to 1818, a schedule of the ancient colored inhabitants on record prior to 1800, and an 1818 map of the town. Wyman’s great work has been out of print for many years, and what’s more, it was printed on very poor quality paper; thus most copies are in an advanced state of deterioration. The reissuance of this classic book once again makes it available to both the librarian and the genealogist.” 1060 pages, hardcover, good condition, spine has faded, owners bookplate inside front cover. Chelsea Chelsea, Massachusetts, Vital Records to the Year 1850 $60.00 Boston: NEHGS, 1916 Chelsea was established January 10, 1739, o.s., from part of Boston called “Winissimet, Rumney Marsh and Pullin Point, or other wise called Number Thirteen (excepting Noddle’s Island and Hog Island).” Part annexed to Saugus February 22, 1841. Part established as North Chelsea (now Revere) March 19, 1846. Chelsea incorporated as a city March 13, 1857. March 23, 1857, act of incorporation accepted by the town. Part of North Chelsea established as Winthrop March 27, 1852. March 24, 1871, name of North Chelsea changed to Revere, if accepted within ninety days. Act accepted April 3, 1871. 558 pages, hardbound, good condition, corners bumped, minor wear top & bottom of spine, several small dark spots on spine. VR |